Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increase in inventories and order backlogs and a drop in unemployment, Martin found "clear and compelling evidence" of inflation. "An environment of rampant inflation," warned former Treasury Under Secretary Robert V. Roosa, "will afford little opportunity for the considered development of any national policy, domestic or foreign." Roosa forecast economic dislocation "bordering on chaos" unless action was taken soon...
Congress recessed last week for its own ten-day version of the Labor Day weekend, its direction so uncertain, its temper so fractious that few would be so bold as to forecast its final record...
...million. So far, in the cooling aftermath of riot, insurance companies are processing only $84 million worth of damage claims, and the overall loss is now put at $144 million. For newsmen, the National Safety Council issues forecasts of expected highway deaths over holiday weekends, usually with a prediction tacked on of "record fatalities." What the forecast never says is that the record is due to population increases and wider use of automobiles, and that the fatality rate is usually just as high proportionately on other weekends-holiday weekends are just a bit longer...
...Angeles Airport commissioners and their consultants, one of whom was Architect Pereira, were not really caught napping. Volume at the city's old terminal in 1956 was about 3,000,000 passengers a year. Though the forecast for 1965 was 7,000,000, the Los Angeles planners decided to bet on eleven million. Even then, they were short of the mark, and the estimates for this year are close to 20 million, and for 1975 a whopping 55 million...
...support of their forecast, the Administration advocates invoked statistics -conveniently issued by the Commerce Department last week-showing a $9 billion (to $627.1 billion) increase in Americans' personal income during June and July. The tax boost, they argued, would cost three out of four families between $2.50 and $9.25 a month, while the fourth, earning more than $10,000 a year, would pay more...